It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.